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Youth Football Drills for the Blitzing Outside Linebacker
Mar
01
Our youth football drills for outside linebacker blitzing are coordinated with our defensive ends. In most cases when we blitz our outside linebackers our defensive end will automatically assume the containment assignment that the OLB would usually have.
We blitz our OLB into two spots and each is labeled by the gap we want him to [...]
Youth Football Drills for the Blitz- The Safety
Feb
22
Our safety blitz youth football drills are communicated by which gap we want our safety to attack. Each drill is basically the same, but his destination is slightly different. Each of his possible destinations are called with words that begin with “S”. “Snake” takes him to the A gap, “Snub” shoots him through the B [...]
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Youth Football Drills for the Blitz- The Cornerback’s Role
Feb
15
Continuing my series on the blitz… my favorite youth football drill for practicing the role of the corner back during a blitz is called “Crash”. It goes by the same terminology that we use to call our corner back blitz. I feel that by using the same terminology that we save time in setting up [...]
Youth Football Drills for the Blitz – Practice for the Inside Linebacker
Feb
08
Here is one of my favorite youth football drills for practicing the role of the Inside Linebacker during a blitz. Our inside linebackers are our most involved players in our total blitz package. These players have to be aware of not only their own blitzing responsibilities but also the blitzing directions of all of the [...]
Wide Receiver Release vs. the Press
Sep
23
Youth football wide receivers must be taught how to release from the line of scrimmage against the press technique as there seems to be more and more defenses who are using the press technique to disrupt the timing of pass routes. Your passing game will be a wild scramble if your receivers are not where [...]
Blocking a Place Kick
Sep
19
In youth football the place kick after a touchdown plays can hold significantly larger role than what it does in high school, college or pro football because it, when successful, is awarded with two points.
Many coaches tell their kids to “get in there and block the kick”, but often do not teach the skill of [...]
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Defensive End Drill – Control the Tight End
Sep
17
My belief is that the tight end is always one of the biggest threats to our defensive success in that most teams have a very good and versatile athlete at this position who can both block and catch passes if allowed to roam at his whim. I know that when our tight end has good [...]
Drilling Audibles – How to Get More Repetitions
Sep
13
Audibles can be used in many different ways, but all methods allow the offense to change the original offensive play to another play that has a better chance of success. Sometimes audibles are necessary because the opponent’s defensive coordinator has “guessed right” and has aligned his defense in advance to stop your play or maybe [...]
Youth Football Drill For Offensive Guard Trap
Sep
09
Here is a quick and easy youth football drill to help your guards become more efficient at “trapping.” Many youth football teams wonder why their trap play is often ineffective. Sometimes the play fails because the defense guesses right and floods the trap area. This great play fails many times, however, because the [...]
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Youth Football Drills for the Defensive Tackle when Practicing the Blitz